Just a quick note to let everyone know that we’re just fine.

While it would be an easy out to say that I’ve been distracted with the latest escalation of violence here, that would be a lie. I’ve just had a bad bout of apathy here in Amman where we’ve been for the past few days. We’ve fallen into limbo here. Seems everywhere we want to go is either being bombed or under the threat of being dragged into the current escalation.

I would like to believe that I know the region and the politics well enough to make informed decisions. But based on this week’s events in Lebanon, I’m doubting my insight and judgement. For example, the Israeli bombing of Beruit is not the response I expected for Hezbollah’s kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers. As of this morning, the civilian death toll has reached 80 in Lebanon and 8 in northern Israel where Hezbollah has been lobbing kyutsha rockets for the past several days in response to the Isreali bombing of Beruit.

The problem with political exteremist on all sides of the complex conflicts here in the Middle East is that they will remember every wrong ever done to them when it is convenient for justifying their current actions. They’ll also forget what happened yesterday should that be convenient as well. They plow forward unconsciously and self-righteously through every situation taking advantage of each tragedy to further their cause.

Meanwhile, innocent civilians and children, people just like you and me, are killed each day–the sacrificial lambs on a bloody political chessboard where the moves are dictated by men who plow forward unconsciously and self-righteously through every situation taking advantage of each tragedy to further their cause.